Finding Family

About: Finding Family is a podcast dedicated to exploring the concept of family, its ups and downs, benefits and challenges, and how people navigate the influence of family as people of color.  So Insil and I worked together at a small private college in Oregon for a few years (where she also an alumna) and immediately clicked.  She's incredibly smart and has a fascinating family background g...

About: Finding Family is a podcast dedicated to exploring the concept of family, its ups and downs, benefits and challenges, and how people navigate the influence of family as people of color.  Deanne is a close friend (and soon to be co-worker again) who is always ready to indulge my Chinese side.  Known as "Auntie D" in our house, she's a warm and giving person who always makes ro...

About: Finding Family is a podcast dedicated to exploring the concept of family, its ups and downs, benefits and challenges, and how people navigate the influence of family as people of color.  Jenn is Paolo's life partner (listen to Paolo's interview in Episode 5).  Together, they're my first couple!  Jenn is one of those friends who you can always count on through thick and thin. ...

About: Finding Family is a podcast dedicated to exploring the concept of family, its ups and downs, benefits and challenges, and how people navigate the influence of family as people of color. Meet Paolo, a former student and now friend.  He's a creative and fun-loving guy with a deep story about family.  Growing up, Paolo was the only child of a Filipina mom and a white dad and he talks abou...

About: Finding Family is a podcast dedicated to exploring the concept of family, its ups and downs, benefits and challenges, and how people navigate the influence of family as people of color.  Chelle, or Sheila as I knew her, is one of my closest confidants from college.  Even though we only went to school together for two academic years, she's been a close friend for 20+ years.  She's...

About: Finding Family is a podcast dedicated to exploring the concept of family, its ups and downs, benefits and challenges, and how people navigate the influence of family as people of color.  Part two of my conversation with my sister where we go into her life as a mom, her continued reflections on growing up in our household, and how she's continuing to build family around her.  

About FF:  Finding Family is a podcast dedicated to exploring the concept of family, its ups and downs, benefits and challenges, and how people navigate the influence of family as people of color.  What better way to start my exploration of family than with my sister, Jen?  She's been my closest confidant but also sometimes my biggest enemy (aka our teenage years).  But through it all, we hav...

About this podcast: Finding Family is a podcast dedicated to exploring the concept of family, its ups and downs, benefits and challenges, and how people navigate the influence of family as people of color. This first episode are my reflections of my experiences with family, the ups and downs.  Since losing both of my parents, I've been searching for what family now means to me.  Now a parent...